LEDE v17.01.0 final

Installing and Using OpenWrt
1

Hi,

The LEDE Community is proud to announce the first stable version of the
LEDE 17.01 version series.

LEDE 17.01.0 "Reboot" incorporates thousands of commits over the last
nine months of effort. With this release, the LEDE development team
closes out an intense effort to modernize many parts of OpenWrt and
incorporate many new modules, packages, and technologies.

Some selected highlights of this release are:

  • Linux kernel updated to version 4.4.50 (from 3.18 in Chaos Calmer)
  • Update of essential software:
    • dnsmasq updated to 2.76 (from 2.73 in Chaos Calmer)
    • busybox updated to 1.25.1 (from 1.23.2 in Chaos Calmer)
    • mbedtls version 2.4.0 (from polarssl 1.3.14 in Chaos Calmer)
    • openssl updated to 1.0.2k
  • Improved Security Features
    • Use SHA256 instead of MD5 to validate source code for packages
    • mbedtls: disable SSLv3 support
    • OpenSSL: disable support for compression, heartbeats, NPN,
      Whirlpool, and J-PAKE
    • Memory Corruption Mitigation Methods
      • gcc -Wformat -Wformat-security
      • User space Stack-Smashing Protection (Regular)
      • Kernel space Stack-Smashing Protection (Regular)
      • buffer-overflows detection (FORTIFY_SOURCE) (Conservative)
      • RELRO protection (Full)
  • Improved Networking Support
    • Smart Queue Management (SQM) minimizes bufferbloat by using the
      cake and fq_codel qdisc's.
    • Improvements to the WiFi stack eliminating bufferbloat on ath9k,
      mt76 and some ath10k chipsets
    • Airtime fairness scheduler for ath9k to prevent slow stations
      from hogging too much airtime
    • Various stability and regression fixes to the Linux wireless
      stack and ath9k in particular
    • Provide alternative Candela-Tech ath10k-ct driver
    • IPv6 hardening
  • Updated toolchain
    • musl 1.1.16
    • gcc 5.4.0
    • binutils 2.25.1
  • Platform and Driver Support
    • Lantiq
      • Added redistributable DSL firmware
      • Updated DSL phy drivers
    • Added new targets:
      • apm821xx (AppliedMicro APM821xx)
      • arc770 (Synopsys DesignWare ARC 770D)
      • archs38 (Synopsys DesignWare ARC HS38)
      • armvirt (QEMU ARM Virtual Machine)
      • ipq806x (Qualcomm Atheros IPQ806X)
      • layerscape (NXP Layerscape)
      • zynq (Xilinx Zynq 7000 SoCs)
    • Reorganized x86 target:
      • Drop dedicated Xen DomU target, merged with x86/generic
      • Enable AES-NI support
    • Removed targets:
      • realview, replaced by armvirt
      • ppc44x, disabled due to code brokeness
      • netlogic, dropped due to no available hardware
  • Build system improvements
    • Separation of base system and community feeds to simplify
      distribution of binary package updates
    • Fixes and enhancements in package dependency handling, better
      support for virtual provides
    • Per-device rootfs images to better tune package selection to each
      individual device profile
    • New image build code improving compilation times and simplifying
      device profile declarations
    • New package/.../check make target to run a series of standard
      diagnostics on Makefiles
    • Support for fetching sources using Curl
    • Generate reproducible source tarballs when packing SCM checkouts
  • Image Builder / SDK
    • Rework library bundling to allow for better portability between
      different Linux distributions
    • Add support for building kernel modules using the SDK
  • Added support for a many new routers and boards

For a detailed list of changes since 17.01.0-rc2 refer to
https://lede-project.org/releases/17.01/changelog-17.01.0-final

For a complete list of changes since the start of the LEDE project, see
https://lede-project.org/releases/17.01/changelog-17.01.0

Known issues:

  • Available space on devices with only 4MB flash is very low,
    users requiring extra packages might want to consider using the
    image builder to repack custom images

  • The available memory on devices with 32MB RAM might be too low to
    reliably run opkg or sysupgrade operations, especially in
    conjunction with LuCI

  • Any outstanding issues reported at https://bugs.lede-project.org/

For latest information about the 17.01 series, refer to the wiki at:
https://lede-project.org/releases/17.01/

To download the v17.01.0 images, navigate to:
https://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/17.01.0/

A big thank you goes to all our active package maintainers, testers,
documenters and supporters.

Have fun!

The LEDE Community

16 Likes
3

Sysupgrade for TP-Link wdr4900v1.3 from 17.01RC2 went fine. Only one thing as a former ddwrt user is new: My installed packages are vanished, but I asume this is standard behavior so I only have to re-install packages.

For the OPKGs is there a shortcut for reinstallation or only one by one?

Ok, found this. No fancy GUI but it will do and it already found it's way into the wiki :- )

4

no mt7620 wifi patch update? :disappointed:

5

Does the patch fix full tx queue problem ? I still suffer from it :disappointed:

[13648.650119] ieee80211 phy1: rt2x00queue_write_tx_frame: Error - Dropping frame due to full tx queue 2
[13648.659621] ieee80211 phy1: rt2x00queue_write_tx_frame: Error - Dropping frame due to full tx queue 2
[13648.669097] ieee80211 phy1: rt2x00queue_write_tx_frame: Error - Dropping frame due to full tx queue 2

6

nope but a lot more stable than before

7

I saw new option added in wifi section: 802.11w. Is it good to enable it ?

Btw, i tested on mt7612 (ac) 802.11w run but not with mt7620 (bgn) (hostapd: fail to init ....)

8

You need the full wpad package (instead of the default wpad-mini) for IEEE 802.11w, enabling it optionally (1) is always a good idea (although I have heard that it might reduce throughput on mt76, you'd need to test that yourself). Enforcing it (2) would be even better, but that depends on the capabilities of (all) your clients and their drivers.

9

Is there a bug raised for the mt7620 wifi rx sensitivity issue?

1 Like
10

final image does not contain rx sensitivity fix?

11

YAY! A big thank you to everyone involved.

12

Any patch to fix the Switch VLAN configuration in Luci? Havnt checked the previous changelogs.

13

What is broken about it?

14

Crypt0

15

I heard it wasn't recommended since Openwrt 15.05 to configure switch vlans Luci, had to stick with uci.

@gufus - Thanks i guess its working with out issues.. Cool.

1 Like
16

Upgrade from CC to v17.01.0 final worked fine on a wndr3700v1.

17

Thanks to all for the hard work!

18

I'm thrilled with the new release! Thanks LEDE team!

19

Please official on the home page, listing the official version of the LEDE or stable version of the GIT clone method
Specify the version number and git clone URL, like the official website of OPENWRT.

Like the official website of OPENWRT, LEDE stable version of the official release of the east to download the compressed package:

1 Like
20

Just updated my WNDR4300v1 from OpenWrt CC to LEDE. Speed (measured with speedtest from LAN) increased from 160 MBit/s to 260 MBit/s. I'm very happy, many thanks to the devs.